Re: Major interview

[Harry McGregor <micros@azstarnet.com>]

I might be going out on a limb here (I am a college student, so money is
not exaclty pleantiful, though most goes into my computers, since I still
live at home...), but I would pay $100USD-300USD for a site license (must
be non version specific, ie, include linux, windows, mac versions (if
available) for a GOOD piece of software for grades K, 1, 2.

I might be able to get the money through the school, but at least for the
first one, I would pay it myself.

We are currently using three programs that they already had site licenses
for (Windows/Mac programs), under wine.

I think $300 per site (Largest high school here is 3,000 students, and the
elementary school is about 700 students) is a very good price for an
educational site license.  This is what we paid for StarOffice 5.1, that
included the win 95/98/NT version, the linux version, the os/2 version,
MacOS PPC (4.0, though 5 should be out soon, and is covered under the site
license), and solaris (x86 and sparc) versions.

BTW for MacOS support I would _NEED_ 68020 and above support.  Out of the
100+ macs we have, only 7 are PPC, and most of the othres are LC/LCII/and
some LCIIIs.


			Harry

On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> Interesting number. I took a fast look at the www.topologika.com (the site
> Roman mentioned in one of his recent postings) and found that they typically
> want 50-60 UK pounds (about US$100, right?), or twice the single-copy price,
> for a "site" license (which I assume is one school). Given typical school
> sizes, this fits nicely into the range you suggested.
> 
> So what about it, anyone else on the list who actually buys software for
> schools? Would you buy educational Linux apps in this price range or not? (I
> won't try to convey a sense of what you're buying; the topologika Web site,
> which includes some downloadable demos for Windows, does that better than I
> can.) Concrete feedback on the pricing question will do more to encourage
> (or discourage, if you say no) commercial developers than more abstract
> discussions of philosophy and the needs of schools.
> ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
> Ray Olszewski                                        -- Han Solo
> Palo Alto, CA  94303-3603    	 	        ray@comarre.com        
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